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Famous great sayings

July 12, 2010 at 8:36 am

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
~Author : Robert Lynd Famous Quotes

Lakes, rivers, streams…all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
~Author : Muhammed Ali in a television interview Inspirational Sayings

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
~Author : Vannevar Bush Nice Quotes

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
~Author : Anonymous Great Sayings

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
~Author : Beckett Meaningful Sayings

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Popular Sayings

Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one’s life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one’s life long.
~Author : William Congreve Wise Quotes

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
~Author : James McNeill Whistler Witty Sayings

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Motivational Sayings

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
~Author : Gloria Gaither Famous Quotes

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
~Author : Stephen A Brennan Inspirational Sayings

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
~Author : Martin Luther Nice Quotes

long inspirational sayings

June 7, 2010 at 1:17 pm

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
~Author : Albert Einstein Famous Quotes

One man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh.
~Author : Robert Anson Heinlein Inspirational long Sayings

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
~Author : Frederika Bremer Nice Quotes

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.
~Author : Father Andrew SDC Great Sayings

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
~Author : Heinrich Heine Meaningful Sayings

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~Author : James Joyce Popular Sayings

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
~Author : Cicero Wise Quotes

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.
~Author : Sanaya Roman Witty Sayings

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Hansard June 10 1941 Motivational Sayings

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
~Author : Denis Watley Famous long Quotes

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
~Author : Horace Mann Inspirational Sayings

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
~Author : George W Bush September 20 2001 Nice Quotes

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May 29, 2010 at 11:02 am

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
~Author : Antoine De SaintExupery Famous Quotes

Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
~Author : CaddyShack Inspirational Sayings

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Nice Quotes

With Congress, every time they make a joke it’s a law, and every time they make a law it’s a joke.
~Author : Will Rogers Great Sayings

Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How’s that for being born under a bad sign
~Author : Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Meaningful Sayings

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
~Author : W C Fields in Richard J Anobile Godfrey Daniels Popular Sayings

The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.
~Author : Dan Cook Wise Quotes

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.
~Author : Walker Percy Witty Sayings

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
~Author : Eric Hoffer Motivational Sayings

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
~Author : Gore Vidal Famous Quotes

Whom did it benefit.
~Author : Longinus Cassius Inspirational Sayings

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning 1605 Nice Quotes

short inspirational quotes

November 25, 2009 at 3:49 pm

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
~Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Famous Quotes

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Even pleasure itself is a toil.
~Author : Manilius Nice Quotes

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Great Sayings

To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of ‘for’ and ‘against’ into one organic unity which is without distinctions.
~Author : Bruce Lee Meaningful Sayings

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place – full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America – full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
~Author : Louis Adamic Popular Sayings

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
~Author : Francis J Braceland O Magazine April 2003 Wise Quotes

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
~Author : Mark Twain Witty Sayings

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
~Author : Voltaire Motivational Sayings

The best love affairs are those we never had.
~Author : Norman Lindsay Famous Quotes

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Sayings

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
~Author : Charles Darwin Nice Quotes

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October 19, 2009 at 5:35 pm

A room without books is like a body without a soul
Quotable One Liners

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget
Amazing Quotes

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with

Only little boys and old men sneer at love

Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much

Every man has his price

Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops

Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers

We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference

It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one

To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause

Random Motivational Sayings

August 31, 2009 at 4:01 pm

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.
~Author : A L Prusick Famous Quotes

There is no place in nature for extinction.
~Author : Licretius Inspirational Sayings

Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.
~Author : Alexander Hamilton P 217 A History of the American People by P Johnson Nice Quotes

This book fills a much-needed gap.
~Author : Moses Hadas Great Sayings

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
~Author : Joseph Conrad Meaningful Sayings

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
~Author : Thomas H Huxley Wise Quotes

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
~Author : Edward M Kennedy Motivational Sayings

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we’ll find it.
~Author : Sam Levenson Famous Quotes

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
~Author : Robin Williams Inspirational Sayings

inspirational Wise sayings

August 30, 2009 at 4:52 pm

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
~Author : George Eliot Middlemarch Book I ch1 Inspirational Sayings

The world is my lobster.
~Author : Henry J Tillman Nice Quotes

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
~Author : August Hare Great Sayings

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
~Author : Zeno from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers Meaningful Sayings

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
~Author : Havelock Ellis Wise Quotes

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man’s look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
~Author : William Hazlitt Motivational Sayings

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
~Author : Dorothy Parker Famous Quotes

A poem is no place for an idea.
~Author : Edgar Watson Howe Country Town Sayings 1911 Inspirational Sayings

Nice Inspirational Sayings

August 27, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.
~Author : Yogi Berra Famous Quotes

I was going to buy a copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking”, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
~Author : Ronnie Shakes Inspirational Sayings

If you’re in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it’ll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they’re thinking, you can throw a real grenade.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Nice Quotes

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
~Author : Ecclesiasticus Great Sayings

I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there.
~Author : John Flansburgh Meaningful Sayings

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~Author : Thomas Szasz The Second Sin 1973 Science and Scientism Wise Quotes

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Motivational Sayings

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another–no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
~Author : Friedrich Engels preface to Kark Marx The Civil War in France 1891 Famous Quotes

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
~Author : Brendan Francis Inspirational Sayings

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August 22, 2009 at 5:33 pm

Every nation ridicules other nations — and all are right.
~Author : Arthur Schopenhauer Famous Quotes

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Inspirational Sayings

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~Author : Plato The Republic Nice Quotes

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
~Author : Mel Brooks Great Sayings

A book holds a house of gold.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Meaningful Sayings

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)
~Author : William Occam Wise Quotes

It’s better to be known by six people for something you’re proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you’re not.
~Author : Albert Brooks Motivational Sayings

I bet when they weren’t fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Famous Quotes

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.
~Author : Max Frisch Inspirational Sayings

funny inspirational quotes

August 13, 2009 at 9:29 am

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
~Author : George Santayana Winds of Doctrine 1913 ch 4 Famous Quotes

The world must be made safe for democracy.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson April 2 1917 Inspirational Sayings

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
~Author : Zig Ziglar Nice Quotes

To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~Author : Buddha Great Sayings

When salvation is viewed as man’s program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God’s program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.
~Author : Michael Horton Meaningful Sayings

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
~Author : Bill Watterson Wise Quotes

No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.
~Author : Arthur Schlesinger Jr Playboy Interview May 1966 Motivational Sayings

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
~Author : Prince Philip of England Famous Quotes

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
~Author : Aristotle Inspirational Sayings

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